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“Atlanta [Journal-Constitution] now has no conventional metro editor, no sports editor, no deputy features editor. Content and production teams have their own leaders, who are supposed to stay in close touch, but no one person oversees, say, the business section from start to finish. The strategy of thinking Web first, talked about nearly everywhere, is demonstrated hourly. The newsroom has no formal late-afternoon budget meeting, but a 1:30 p.m. page-one huddle around a slot editor’s desk (which managing editors seldom attend), plus several similar digital and section gatherings. Action at ground level, not orders from on high, is the watchword”

El periodista Carl Sessions Stepp describe en un largo reportaje, Transforming the Architecture (American Journalism Review, August/September 2007), el nuevo modelo de trabajo en las redacciones integradas de varios diarios estadounidenses, como Atlanta Journal-Constitution, San Jose Mercury News, Des Moines Register o el washingtoniano Politico.

La conclusión principal que obtiene el autor de todos esos casos es que la simple mudanza cosmética de las redacciones no es suficiente. No basta con reorganizar las sillas y mesas; “in order to really change the newsroom, you have to change the architecture of the newspaper“.